I'm tired of hearing anti-public-transportation people complain about how "expensive" public transportation is, and how they don't want "my tax dollars" subsidizing it.
Does anyone really consider how expensive it is to maintain roads? Or how quickly roads deteriorate if they're not maintained? I have pictoral evidence below the fold.
Was looking at pictures from the amazing Coastal Records Project.
Here's a little dog-legged road climbing up the hill behind a building, in active use in 1972:
And here's the same road in 1979, only a few years after it was bypassed:
Wow.
Didn't take long for it to turn into basically a dirt path. Of course, today there's nothing left of it at all.
Roads cost money. Lots of money. I'm not buying the bullshit argument that "public transportation costs too much!". Our roads are heavily subsidized by our tax dollars. This stuff is expensive. And, in the world of Peak Oil, it's an increasingly foolish waste of money.